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Updated: June 19, 2025
Was it not safe for the cause and just as safe for them? Was not every maid and matron of them in the "Ladies' Society of the Confederate Army" whereof Miss Callender was a secretary and Miss Valcour one of the treasurers?
Yet here was that theatre, and the Doctor's metaphor was still good enough for the unexacting taste of the two Valcour ladies, to whom Anna had quoted it.
"But this next man about whom you have been hinting since you came up here? Is this the man?" She pointed to the path leading into the woods. Louis came towards them in a hurry, having promised them a trip to the rocks of Valcour.
The matter is explained to Madame Valcour by a stranger: "Now at the captain's word all the cannoneers will spring down, leaving only guns, teams and drivers at their back, and line up facing us.
His rear could be approached only by beating back against a bad wind all the way round the outside of Valcour Island; and, even if this manoeuvre could have been performed, the British attack on his rear from the north could have been made only in a piecemeal way, because the channel was there at its narrowest, with a bad obstruction in the middle.
Upon this rests the merit of his bold advance into the lower narrows; upon this his choice of the strong defensive position of Valcour; upon this his refusal to retreat, as urged by Waterbury, when the full force of the enemy was disclosed, a decision justified, or rather, illustrated, by the advantages which the accidents of the day threw into his hands.
How placid his brow, above eyes whose long lashes would have made them meltingly tender had they not been so large with mirth: "A boy's eyes," thought she while he remembered what he had just called hers. She noted his mouth, how gently firm: "A man's mouth!" Charlie Valcour broke in between them: "Is there not going to be any drill, after all?"
"How perfectly terrible!" she murmured, their steps ceasing and her eyes remote in meditation. "Poor Flora! Oh, the poor old lady! And oh, oh, poor Flora! But, Con! The line will be changed! He you know what the boys call him!" "Yes, but there's the trouble. He's no one lady's man. Like Steve, he's so absolutely fair " "Connie, I tell you it's a strange line he won't change for Flora Valcour!"
"After all, in these terrible time'," remarked Miss Valcour in committee of the whole last session before the public opening "any toil, even look' at selfishly, is better than to be idle." "As if you ever looked at anything selfishly!" said a matron, and there was a patter of hands. "Or as if she were ever in danger of being idle!" fondly put in a young battery sister.
Anna and Greenleaf and the other couples regathered about the carriage, and Miss Valcour from her high seat smiled her enthusiasm down among them, exalting theirs. And now as a new movement of the battery followed, and now another, her glow heightened, and she called musically to Constance, Mrs. Callender and Anna, by turns, to behold and admire.
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